| Choe Jeong-hui | |||||||||||
| Native Name: | 최정희 | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | December 3, 1912 | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Dancheon, South Hamgyong Province, North Korea | ||||||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||||||
| Nationality: | South Korean | ||||||||||
| Spouse: | Kim Dong-hwan | ||||||||||
| Children: | Kim Ji-won, Kim Chae-won | ||||||||||
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Choe Jeong-hui (1912–1990) was one of the most successful early women writers in South Korea.
She was born in Dancheon, South Hamgyong Province and was educated in Seoul. She worked at a kindergarten in Tokyo and as a journalist in Seoul before starting her writing career in 1931; she worked for the magazine Samcheolli (삼천리) and the newspaper The Chosun Ilbo (조선일보). She was associated with the Korean Artists' Proletarian Federation, and was jailed in 1934 as a result.[1] [2]
Her daughters, Kim Ji-won and Kim Chae-won, were also successful writers.[3] She first married filmmaker Kim Yu-yeong in 1930, but they divorced a year later when she met her second husband, Kim Dong-hwan, in 1931 while working for Samcheolli.